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Opinion: Could long-term AI use lead to isolation? We need to find out — but researchers need better access to data

“What we don’t know is whether people are disconnecting from one another, gradually, over months of interacting with chatbots,” researchers write.

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“What we don’t know is whether people are disconnecting from one another, gradually, over months of interacting with chatbots,” researchers write.

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